I happened to setup jellyfin when i had first heard about it while I was already hosting plex, so when plex decided to charge for remote streaming years later I was already halfway there.

I don’t know MAM, but I always assume these rules exist to stop abuse or a headache rather than some kind of elitism.

Multiple accounts with the same ip? You get into ban evasion and the argument of “ThAt’s NoT mE, tHaTs XYZ” if you just ban them all.

I’ve read reasons about the client thing, but I don’t remember any, and the mobile thing, probably just stops an argument about “I’m trying, my phone just keeps killing it”. Could it be simpler? Of course, but if you deal with people all the time sometimes it’s just easier to make a rule and be done with it.

No, I don’t think I have that as an option on the cheaper plans. They have two tiers that they call lean and premium. Premium let’s you do all kinds of things, like hosting jellyfin and plex right from the seedbox, using the 'arrs, things like that. Those are fairly expensive for any meaningful amount of storage.

I have one of the lean plans. This is all you get with it:

I’ve used rapidseedbox for a while now, my experience has overall been pretty good. I had the 1TB plan for around 8 or 9 usd a month, then I switched to annual to get a deal and recently I upgraded to 2TB. They give you 3 torrent applications on those cheap plans, I use rutorrent after testing all 3 and that works fine for me. I use filezilla to get the files to my PC after.

I had one issue where those downloads to my PC got slow for a while, kind of randomly. I chatted their support (it’s one of those chat bubbles at the bottom of their page when you’re logged in). They had me switch from either sFTP to FTPs or the other way around (can’t remember) and then it was back to normal.

Early on, I had gotten a torrent for a very popular Linux iso that just dropped from a public site, so I accidentally let it seed many, many times over. I want to say that months upload was something like >10tb, at that point the website does complain. It’s been a while so I don’t remember the exact message but I set up a rule to stop after something like 8x upload and now it’s fine.

Overall, decent service for me, relatively fast and cheap, the support was good the two times I used it (though a little slow, but you don’t have to stay on the website waiting, it emails you when they respond).

Edit: there are 4, not 3.